[Peace-discuss] [ufpj-activist] CNN: Saudi Arabia calls deadly strike on Yemeni civilians a 'mistake'

Sun Aug 27 14:17:55 UTC 2017

Yes. How should we do this?

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 7:10 AM Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
wrote:

> This particular "mistake" could be stopped by turning four of these five
> Senate Democrats: Mark Warner of Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri,
> Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Bill Nelson of Florida, Joe Manchin of West
> Virginia. These five Senate Democrats voted on June 13 to keep arming Saudi
> Arabia's war in Yemen, when 43 Senate Democrats and 4 Senate Republicans
> voted to stop arming Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. 47 plus four equals 51.
>
> Why isn't there more interest in stopping this catastrophe, when doing so
> would only require turning four Senate Democrats?
>
> ===
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> (202) 448-2898 x1
>
> @clairecmc, @SenDonnelly, @Sen_JoeManchin, @MarkWarner, @SenBillNelson:
> #StopArmingSaudi War Crimes in Yemen
> https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-stop-arming-saudi?r_by=1135580
>
> House: Use War Powers to Save A Million Yemeni Kids from Cholera & Famine
> https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580
>
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes of course, everything we do is a mistake, by “we” I include our
>> allies with whom we collude.
>>
>> Our intervention in Iraq was a mistake, just as our war in Vietnam was a
>> mistake, every time we get caught killing civilians they are labeled
>> “collateral damage” and a mistake. You know, “oops I missed my target, oops
>> I accidentally slaughtered a few thousand more people.”
>>
>> It begs the question, when are “we” the American people going to put a
>> stop to USG “mistakes? Mistakes that are killing millions of people, over
>> there, and impoverishing and killing people here?”
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2017, at 06:17, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Property of: Mark Warner, Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, Bill Nelson,
>> Joe Manchin.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/25/middleeast/yemen-airstrike-sanaa/index.html
>>
>> Saudi Arabia calls deadly strike on Yemeni civilians a 'mistake'
>> By Hakim Almasmari, Hamdi Alkhshali, and Eliza Mackintosh
>> Updated 2:29 PM ET, Sat August 26, 2017
>>
>> Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) A deadly airstrike on residential buildings in Sanaa
>> was the result of a "technical mistake," the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen
>> said Saturday in a statement to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
>> The strike killed 16 people, including seven children, Yemen's
>> rebel-controlled health ministry said Friday.
>> The attack, which flattened two buildings in Sanaa's southern district of
>> Faj Attan, comes amid escalating violence in the war-torn country.
>> A Saudi-led coalition spokesman expressed "deep sorrow for this
>> unintentional accident and for the collateral damage among civilians."
>> The intended target of the strike was a command-and-control center for
>> Houthi rebels, spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said, calling it "a legitimate
>> military target."
>> The facility, al-Maliki said, was intentionally set up in a residential
>> area to turn civilians into human shields.
>> Saudi Arabia, backed by a coalition of Arab states, launched a military
>> operation in March 2015 against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who toppled
>> the internationally recognized leadership in Yemen.
>> In the last week alone, the United Nations estimates that 58 civilians
>> have been killed in airstrikes, including 42 in Saudi-led coalition
>> bombings. That death toll is higher than in the entire month of June, when
>> 52 civilians were killed, and in July, which saw 57 civilian deaths.
>> Since fighting began, the UN Human Rights Office has documented 13,829
>> civilian casualties, including 5,110 people killed. The numbers, based on
>> casualties individually verified by the UN's Yemen Office, are believed to
>> be a fraction of the overall death toll.
>> Hotel attack
>> Friday's attack came two days after an airstrike hit a hotel
>> <http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/middleeast/yemen-airstrike-hotel/index.html> on
>> the outskirts of Sanaa, leaving dozens dead. The United Nations has
>> launched an investigation into that attack.
>> Two airstrikes hit the area in close succession at around 3:30 a.m., a
>> witness told the United Nations. The first struck a security checkpoint
>> purportedly manned by Houthi rebels, and, several minutes later, a second
>> strike hit the Istirahat Al Shahab hotel.
>> Most of those killed at the hotel died in their sleep and were buried
>> under rubble, Mohammed al-Sarhi, a farmer, told CNN.
>> At least 33 civilians were killed and another 25 injured in the attack,
>> the United Nations confirmed. Yemen's health ministry, which is controlled
>> by Houthi rebels, says 51 people died. The health ministry is based in
>> Sanaa and is not part of the internationally recognized, Saudi-backed
>> government based in the southern city of Aden.
>> [...]
>>
>> ===
>>
>> Robert Naiman
>> Policy Director
>> Just Foreign Policy
>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>> (202) 448-2898 x1 <(202)%20448-2898>
>>
>> @clairecmc, @SenDonnelly, @Sen_JoeManchin, @MarkWarner, @SenBillNelson:
>> #StopArmingSaudi War Crimes in Yemen
>> https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-stop-arming-saudi?r_by=1135580
>>
>> House: Use War Powers to Save A Million Yemeni Kids from Cholera & Famine
>> https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580
>>
>>
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